Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.
Jon Bentley
If you use copy and paste while you're coding, you're probably committing a design error.
David Parnas
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
Just don't create a file called -rf.
Larry Wall
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis